The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-21
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Estimates for the Appropriations
National Banking Associations.

Estimates for the Appropriations
! National Banking Associations.
WASHINGTON, January 2O.-The Sec
rotary of the Treasury, to-day, trans
mitted to Congress estimates of the ap-
preparations for defraying the expenses
of collecting revenue from the customs
| for the next fiscal year. The estimates
show IN detail the number # employees
IN every district and II cir salaries max
ing the estimated cost of collecting the
customs revenues $6,54O,S73
| Mr.. Miller tTexas) to-day introduced
q bill to amend the laws relating TO ma
! tlonal banking associations, which en-
bodies the recommendation of Compt-
troller trenholm on this subject. Sub
mltted to the committee before recess.
WASHINGTON January 20-The Near
augan Canal matter, which was before
the Senate IN secret session yesterday,
vas brought up on motion to recon,
I slider the vote uDonSthe resolution ad-
" Ing the President to enter into nego-
| udtions for concession. The subject
was left pending in order that some
further facts might be presented in dis
cusslon and the pr position to extend the
Hawallan reciprocity treaty was taken
up The latter subject consumed a
portion of the time of the long secret
session to-day and was acted upon =
favOrably. An additional article to
treaty was also ratified. the effect of
which is to give the United States the
use OF the Pearl River harbor as a naval
cOaling station.
IN THE EMMoNs CASE
tois morning, the cross-examination of
DR.. w. Godding was continued. He
repeated his statement that Mrs. En-
mons was ofsound mind.
DO you consider Mrs EmmOn3 an
inebriate?' asked Juror Perry.
No, hardly that but alcohol Jas had
a marked effect on her hysterical tenn
permanent
DR.. Lincoln was then called to the
stand. He related his first visit to Mrs.
Emmons. He said he found her in
bed, evidently suffering from the eff
fects of alcohol. On his second visit,
he found her physically so weak that
he became alarmed for her life. Deem
ing 1t best to have her confined in some
place where there would be g restraint
on her in the use of stimulants He
suggested that DR.. Sims, of New York,
luuuCEu
to go to that city. Il have never seen.
said DR.. Lincoln, anything on the part
of Mrs. EmmOns that indicated ;nsan-
itY." He believed she was killing her
self by excessive indulgence in stimu-
lants. '
SENATOR VEST,
from the committee on commerce, to
day reported favorabIy the bill to ex-
tend the provisions of the law allowing
all imported merchandise consigned to
interior ports of entry to be immedi-
ately transported in bond to such ports
without appraiSement or delay at the
original port of arrival, to such i'm
ported merchandise as NAV not REQUIRE
appraisement when not consigned to
such interior ports, but which may be,
under certain specified conditions, re- .
consigned by the original consignees.
Senator Conger reported faYoraOly
from the conference committee a bill
to amend the existing law so as to per
init merchandise carried by express
companies III pouches, as well as in
safes and trunks, and also when cord
ed and sealed, according to the 7eguIa-
tons prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury to be carried in ordinary
cars instead of separate vehicles pro-
yided for the purpose.
Both these bills have passed the
House.
GENERAL NEWS.
Representatives Miller (Texas) to-day
introduced into the House a. bill for the
relief Of depositors in the Freedman's
savings banks. The bill is framed on
the recon mendation of the Comptroller
OF Currency and apprOpriates 81 900 900
for the relief of depositors in the bank.
The agricultural appropriation bill.
as prepared by the committee. Ileaves
out 1.-THE item;for sorghum experiments.
Senator Sherman, President pro tenn.
to- day laid before the Senate a memo
nal from the Legislative ASSEMBLY OF
Idaho protesting against. any PROPOSE 4
ton to sever any part of Idaho, with a
view to attaching or annexing the sew
cred portion to any other State or Ter
ritOry.
The Secretary Of State to day sent to
the Senate a communication recon-
mending that an appropriation be
made to pay the widow of Moses o.
hopkins, late minister to- Eiberea, an
amount equal to that usually allowed
the heirs OF United States officers who
die abroad and in Office.
. COMBINATIONS.
POstmasters-E. NJ. Young, Silver
City, n. NJ; ]. P. Smith, Elko, New; ].
w. Carleton, Deer Lodge, Montana; o.
G. Mcnamara, Port Townsend, W. Ty.:
b. Ratnoar, Weeping Water, Neb :; H.
Dowdy, HOLSTER, Gala; J. G, TYLER.
Ogden, Utah. Consul-John T. Camp.
bell, OF California. at Auckland. r. y.
Ross. of Illinois, Recorder of General
Land Office; J. B. Caldwell, of Indiana,
Deputy Second Auditor of the Trea-
sury; w. H. Webster, of Connecticut,
Chief Examiner of Civil Service
commission; f. A. Reed, assistant
solicitor of the Treasury; w. A. Magin-
mis-, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
OF Wyoming; United States d;strica
Attorney. 7. Casey, Northern. Dis
trict of California; United States mar
shal-D. 81. Risley, Southern District